r}l*^'  I  Issued  January  22,  1907. 

United  States  Department  of  Agriculture, 

BUREAU  OF  ANIMAL  INDUSTRY. 


Amendment  No.  8  to  B.  A.  I.  Order  No.  137  (Regulations  Governing  the 
3Ieat  Inspection  of  tlie  United  States  Department  of  Agriculture). 


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A3IENDMENT  TO  REGULATIONS  50,  53,  55,  56,  61,  AND  64,  GOVERNING 

THE  INTERSTATE  AND  FOREIGN  TRANSPORTATION  OF 

MEATS  AND  MEAT-FOOD  PRODUCTS. 

U.  S.  Department  of  Agriculture, 

Office  of  the  Secretary, 
Washington,  D.  (7.,  January  21,  1907. 
For  the  purpose  of  preventing  the  use  in  interstate  or  foreign  com- 
merce of  meats  and  meat-food  products  which  are  unsound,  unwhole- 
some, unhealthful,  or  otherwise  unfit  for  human  food,  under  authority 
conferred  upon  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture  by  the  provisions  of  the  act 
of  Congress  approved  June  30,  1906  (34  Stat.,-  674),  the  following 
amendments  to  Regulations  50,  53,  55,  56,  61,  and  64  are  hereby  pre- 
scribed for  the  transportation  in  interstate  and  foreign  commerce  of  the 
carcasses,  parts  of  carcasses,  meats,  and  meat-food  products  of  cattle, 
sheep,  swine,  and  goats. 

This  amendment,  which  for  the  purpose  of  identification  is  designated 
as  Amendment  No.  8  to  B.  A.  I.  Order  No.  137,  shall  become  and  be 
effective  on  and  after  February  1,  1907. 

James  Wilson, 
Secretary  of  Agriculture. 


Regulation  50.  Paragraph  (j)  of  Regulation  50,  as  amended  by 
Amendments  Nos.  4  and  7  to  B.  A.  I.  Order  No.  137,  is  hereby  further 
amended  by  changing  the  wording  of  the  proviso  (commencing  with 
the  seventh  line  of  said  paragraph  as  it  appears  in  Amendment  No.  4) 
to  read  as  follows:  ''Provided,  That  during  the  months  of  October, 
November,  and  December,  1906,  and  January,  February,  and  until 
March  15,  1907,  shippers  who  are  in  possession"  etc.  The  effect  of 
this  amendment  is  to  allow  until  March  15,  1907,  to  dispose  of  the 
remaining  sweet  pickled,  dry  salted,  smoked,  and  other  similar  meats, 
lard,  lard  compounds,  etc.,  which  were  prepared  or  were  in  process  of 
preparation  prior  to  October  1,  1906. 

Regulations  53,  55,  56,  61,  and  64.  The  requirement  of  each  of 
the  above  regulations  that  car  numbers  and  initials  shall  be  shown  on 
the  various  shipping  certificates  is  hereby  modified  to  include  only  car- 
load shipments.  On  certificates  for  less  than  carload  shipments  the 
car  numbers  and  initials  need  not  be  shown. 

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